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300 essential Spanish words and phrases on CD and audioscript with pronunciation guide
Fast
If you've always wanted to learn Spanish or need to learn it in a hurry, here is a quick, stress-free introduction to the basics. This 60-minute audio course features more than 300 essential Spanish words
and phrases, including the latest vocabulary for the Internet and E-mail.
Easy
A narrator guides you through the program, providing brief explanations of the foreign phrases. All you have to do is listen and repeat after the native speakers. And the CD format makes it easy to access any
topic instantly.
Effective
Brief quizzes in this interactive course help you think in Spanish. Lessons include short dialogues so you can hear Spanish spoken naturally. Learn both pronunciation and comprehension skills. To help with memorization, each phrase is spoken twice, with ample pauses for repetition.
Portable
A transcript with pronunciation guide is included, but the compact disk may be used alone. It's easy to learn on the go: in a car, on a plane, even while walking or jogging.

Contents:
Greetings
Shopping
Polite Expressions
Directions
At the Hotel
At the Restaurant
Numbers
Shopping
Telling Time
Mail, Internet and Telephone
The Airport
The Train Station
Questions
Days and Months

Possibly the world’s favorite wizard, Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard - with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths ... and about the villain who's to blame. Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling.

This novella was a great story and another exellent testament to King's skillful command of our language. Who ever said pop culture can not also be art? This probably would have received a 5 star rating from me if it were not for the fact that the movie is so much better than the book, a rare feat. I think that the written word was simply the wrong medium for this message. Kudos to King, though, for coming up with a brilliant prison-escape heist/caper--my favorite sort of story.